Edited
by Earl Ingersoll
American
Reader Series
The
interviews with multiple award-winning poet Li-Young Lee
in Breaking the Alabaster Jar offer access
to the poet's evolving concepts of what it means to be an artist,
the way art can lead the reader toward essential metaphysical
concerns, and what it means to be a kind of literary mystic
in the 21st century. Readers will find Lee's comments on his
writing both provocative and engaging. Literary scholar Earl
Ingersoll collected and edited the interviews, and wrote the
insightful introduction. Several interviews appeared in important
American journals while others appear here in print for the
first time.
Editor Earl Ingersoll:
"The conversations in this collection have special value
because Li-Young Lee has never been an academic and has little
interest in academic discourse. As these conversations
make clear, this is not because he has nothing to add to the
contemporary discourse about writing poetry. This collection
offers what Lee does best - other than write poems, of course.
The conversations allow him to read his poems and talk about
the context in which he recalls writing them."
Roger
Pao writes: "Conversations with Li-Young Lee is
the first edited and published collections of interviews given
by an Asian-American poet. While the fact that a book
happens to be "a landmark" (in the sense that it attempts
to undertake an original endeavor) does not necessarily make
it good, I think that this volume of Li-Young Lee's thoughts
on poetry, aesthetics, and life is superlative -- both in concept
and execution" To read the entire review click here.
Visit
[Li-Young Lee's Author Page]
for more information on the poet.
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-929918-82-9
Price: $19.95
Publishing Date: September 2006
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BOA Editions, Ltd. would like to thank the following generous
Publishing Partners for their support of Breaking the Alabaster
Jar:
Mary
S. Mulligan Charitable Trust
Alan
& Nancy Cameros
Gwen
& Gary Conners
Burch
& Louise Craig
Susan
S. Feinstein
Bev
& Pete French
Andy
& Jacquie Germanow
Dane
& Judy Gordon
Gerard
& Suzanne Gouvernet
Kip
& Deb Hale
William
B. Hauser
Peter
& Robin Hursh
Robert
& Willy Hursh
Earl
G. Ingersoll
Bill
Johnson & Susie Cohen
Archie
& Pat Kutz
Rosemary
& Lew Lloyd
Ruth
& Irving Malin
Richard
Margolis & Sherry Phillips
Robert
& Frances Marx
Jeffrey
Metzger & Robin Hamilton
Daniel
M. Meyers
Jimmy
& Wendy Mnookin
Suzanne
Nelson
Boo
Poulin
Thom
Satterlee
Jane
M. Schuster
Sue
S. Stewart
Thomas
R. Ward
Pat
& Michael Wilder
Geraldine
Zetzel
